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Since I finished school ((Fun fact: 57% of my sentences these days start with “Since I finished school”. The other 43% start with “When I was in Ireland”.)), I no longer have an excuse for my place to be a mess. For the past two years, I was able to tell myself that I didn’t […] →Read more
When I was in Toronto at Christmas, I had the good fortune of hanging out with Dr. Dan and Mr. Rick. There was dinner and beer and shopping and other such things of a celebratory nature. And there was also a discussion of an idea Rick had come up with: the 90-day Fitness & Accountability […] →Read more
Hey, remember that time I played hockey for 10 days straight and there was a documentary made about it? Well, if you missed it at the NINE different film festivals it’s been to and you haven’t bought a copy yet, you can catch it in the comfort of your own home on the Knowledge Network this week! It will […] →Read more
In addition to my 2014 goals, I decided to have some themes for this year. Themes are the new black. Reflection During the past two years while I’ve been in school (in addition to working full-time at a job that requires lots of brain work), something I’ve had precious little of has been time. I’ve […] →Read more
As you know, I love setting goals. And what better time than New Year’s Day to do some goal setting! As usual, I have a bunch of fitness related goals, as I find having a SMART goals ((specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound)) really motivating as I know what I have to do when it […] →Read more
And this is my 213th blog posting of the year. It wasn’t the one I intended, as I was working on a posting about my goals for 2014 but got side tracked by a couple of phone calls, and so I didn’t have time to give that posting the time it needed. But they were […] →Read more
I feel like I can summarize my year with two statements ((I suppose I should add a third one in there: had a break up. But I don’t like blogging about that, so I’m certainly not giving it its own bullet point. Moving on.)): did a hellava lot of school went on an awesome vacation […] →Read more
Here is a quick summary of my blog and Twitter stats for 2013 ((To see previous years’ nerd stats postings, click the year in the table.)): 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 % change from 2012 Blog postings: 423 357 344 380 201 213 +6% Tweets: 2,227 1,815 2302 3,625 875 ((note to self: You […] →Read more
2013 Goals Achieved(y/n) Comments Lose the 15 lbs that I gained since starting my MBA N I’ve lost ~7 lbs, so that’s something. Pay off my car. Y I’m now completely debt-free! Run a sub-2 hour half marathon. N I didn’t even come close, but I did manage to reverse my trend of doing worse on […] →Read more
One of my goals for 2013 was to complete 13 items from my list of 101 things to do in 1001 days. To help facilitate this, I actually picked a goal for each month and set forth on those goals that required a long-term investment (e.g., do a 365 photo challenge, do exercise every day […] →Read more